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US-10958943

Methods, devices and systems for parallel video encoding and decoding

PublishedMarch 23, 2021
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Technical Abstract

A method for decoding a video bitstream is disclosed. The method comprises: entropy decoding a first portion of a video bitstream, wherein first portion of video bitstream is associated with a video frame, thereby producing a first portion of decoded data; entropy decoding a second portion of video bitstream, wherein second portion of video bitstream is associated with video frame, thereby producing a second portion of decoded data, wherein entropy decoding second portion of video bitstream is independent of entropy decoding first portion of video bitstream; and reconstructing a first portion of video frame associated with video bitstream using first portion of decoded data and second portion of decoded data.

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4 claims

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1. A method for decoding video data, the method comprising: receiving a video bitstream, the video bitstream including plurality of pictures, the plurality of pictures including: a first picture with a plurality of blocks of samples that are entropy encoded; and a plurality of headers associated with the plurality of pictures, the plurality of headers including a first header associated with the first picture and a second header associated with the first picture, wherein the second header is different from the first header and shares most of attributes with the first header; obtaining, from the video bitstream the first header and the second header; examining value of a one bit parameter associated with each of the first header and the second header; and in response to the examining, determining that the value of the one bit parameter for the first header is set to 0 to indicate that the first header is a regular header, and the value of the one bit parameter for the second header indicates that the second header is not a regular header.

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2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a size of the second header is smaller than a size of the first header.

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3. An apparatus for decoding video data, the apparatus comprising: one or more processors; and one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: receiving a video bitstream, the video bitstream including plurality of pictures, the plurality of pictures including: a first picture with a plurality of blocks of samples that are entropy encoded; and a plurality of headers associated with the plurality of pictures, the plurality of headers including a first header associated with the first picture and a second header associated with the first picture, wherein the second header is different from the first header and shares most of attributes with the first header; obtaining, from the video bitstream the first header and the second header; examining value of a one bit parameter associated with each of the first header and the second header; and in response to the examining, determining that the value of the one bit parameter for the first header is set to 0 to indicate that the first header is a regular header, and the value of the one bit parameter for the second header indicates that the second header is not a regular header.

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4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein a size of the second header is smaller than a size of the first header.

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April 17, 2020

Publication Date

March 23, 2021

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